School students will be able to download Microsoft Office software to their personal electronic devices for free, under a new deal between the software giant and the Ministry of Education.
A new agreement announced today by Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye will also allow schools to move student and other electronic records on to cloud-based storage, and off school PCs and servers.
Ms Kaye announced the new deal during a visit to Wellington's Lyall Bay School this afternoon.
It extends an existing agreement with Microsoft for three years, and the deal continues to license core software for school computers.
The ability for schools to move to a cloud-based IT environment was a key feature of the new agreement, Ms Kaye said, and would reduce cost for schools.
